No, I don't believe it. Because that is NOT what Scott Lomax said. Lookout can't misquote and then use Scott as her source.
Let's go to the video tape (sorry that is one of the sayings of a famous local sport newscaster):
Lookout:
"For two years,Sheila had been talking about killing her mother and the children. No doubt this will appear as part of the medical reports in the next submission. For at leas four months,Sheila herself had contemplated suicide."
Lomax:
“Sheila's psychiatrist, Doctor Ferguson, wrote in his report that his patient self harmed, had expressed thoughts of a suicidal nature and told that she was capable of murdering her sons."
What Lomax left out is that the report in question was Ferguson's 1983 discharge letter where he recorded things that she talked with him about before successfully being treated. Here is how the 2002 Appeal decision addresses such:
"In the discharge letter Dr Ferguson made reference to her morbid thoughts, which included the idea she was capable of murdering her children or communicating an ability to them to kill. He said she had spoken of suicidal thoughts although he did not regard her as a suicide risk. Miss Caffell responded to the treatment at hospital and was discharged on 10 September 1983."
So the truth is that she told Ferguson that before her treatment she had suicidal thoughts (many people do at some point in their life) and that she had delusions about her kids. Ferguson noted that after that successful treatment she never intimated to him any thoughts about suicide or delusions about her family anymore. The delusions she had during her relapse was about Freddie being the devil and she told Ferguson that Freddie was supplying her with narcotics. Hence why Ferguson told Colin he didn 't think Freddie was a good influence on her.
So let's go back to Lookout's claim:
"For two years,Sheila had been talking about killing her mother and the children. No doubt this will appear as part of the medical reports in the next submission. For at leas four months,Sheila herself had contemplated suicide."
Was she talking about killing her children and mother for 2 years? No she didn't talk about killing her mother at all. Did she talk about killing her kids for 2 years? No she intimated that prior to her 1983 treatment that she had delusions that they could do violence to her and she thought she was capable of killing them basically to protect herself. But these delusions stopped upon being treated and she didn't mention having them again. So Lookout's characterization is completely wrong.
Her suggestion that for the 4 months preceding her death she was contemplating suicide is also unfounded. The only evidence of her speaking about suicide is that she told him and others that she had thought about it in the past specifically before her 1983 treatment.
So the jury heard that she talked about these things before her treatment, did not have these problems again after her 1983 treatment and that Ferguson did not see her at risk as going through with any violence against anyone else or herself.
The jury also heard that she stopped taking her medication, had delusions, viewed Freddie as the devil and a big threat and yet still did not harm him. Thus supporting Ferguson's view that she was not a violent threat even when she stopped taking her medicaiton though at the time of the murders she was on her medication.
That is the full story and Lookout's claims are not supported at all.
